Automated Deployment Resource Cleanup

Keeping your infrastructure tidy shouldn't require a weekly calendar reminder. We're introducing Automated Deployment Resource Cleanup, a new Hyphen Agent capability that detects and safely removes unused or stale cloud resources created during deployments.

Over time, environments accumulate:

• Orphaned containers
• Unused load balancers
• Detached volumes
• Expired preview environments
• Outdated build artifacts

These resources quietly increase cloud spend, clutter your infrastructure, and add operational risk. Hyphen now automatically identifies deployment-created resources that are no longer in use and cleans them up according to your organizational, project, or deployment-level retention policies.

How it works

Hyphen tracks resources created during each deployment. When a deployment is archived or re-deployed, associated resources are evaluated. Resources that are no longer referenced by active services are automatically removed. Cleanup actions are logged and visible in the Agent Inbox for full transparency.

What this means for you

• Reduced cloud spend from unused infrastructure
• Lower operational risk from forgotten resources
• Cleaner deployment environments
• Zero manual cleanup scripts required

Things to know

• Cleanup only applies to resources provisioned through Hyphen-managed deployments.
• Active environments are never impacted.
• Retention policies can be configured at the organization, project, or individual deployment level.
• The feature is enabled automatically.